Folding leg table



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FOLDING LEG TABLE Filed Nov. 17, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR.

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a b: ATTORNEYS Patented Oct. 17, 1933 k UNlTED STATES QFFEE FOLDING LEG TABLE William Berssenbruggc, Milwaukee, Wis.

Application November 17, 1932 Serial No. 643,024

Claims. (Cl. 45--l.1)

of my invention is to provide a fold- 27, serves, in conjunction with nut 28, to pivotg l -structure for tables, more particularly ally connect the leg with the bracket and to firmables, which may be cheaply manufactured 1y anchor the bracket onto the top frame, the tailed, whereby legs of maximum length teats entering bar and holding tl e bracket arranged so as to fold perimetrically against rotation about the bolt as an aXis. 60 wit. in he top frame and, when projected, will Pivoted, by rivet29, to ear 13 is the upper end be firmly supported by and braced in two planes of a brace 30, the lower end of which is secured upon the top frame independently of the main to the leg 27 by rivet 31 which also serves to top sheet. attach to the leg the lower link 32 of a toggle 10 The accompanying drawings illustrate my inbrace T. Pivoted to link 32 at an intermediate 65 .vention. point in its length by pin 33 is the upper link 1 is an under plan of a table embodying my 34 of toggle brace T, and the upper end of said invention with three of the four legs in folded polink 34 is pivctally connected to the adjacent top sitions and with one leg extended to top-supportbar 10 by rivet 35.

log position; Portions '37 and 33, struck up respectively from 70 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1; links 32 and 34' are soarranged relative to pivot Fig. 3 is a full size plan, in partial horizontal 33 that; when the two links 3234 arev brought section of my improved bracket and immediately into alignment further relative movement in that associated parts; direction will be prevented by their engagement.

Fig. 4 is an elevation of one end of said bracket The short free end of link 82 carries a teat 40 75 and the adjacent portion of a leg and an assowhich may spring into and be nested within ciated brace, pocket 41, carried by link 34, when the two links Fig. 5 a fragmentary perspective of the oppoare aligned, thereby resisting accidental breaking site end of said bracket; of the toggle.

' Fig. 6 a fragmentary elevation of a desirable Other well-known forms of braces may be sub- 80* form of toggle brace; stituted for the toggle brace T without depart- Fig. 7 a side elevation of a modified form of ing from my invention.

bracket, and The modified bracket shown in Figs. '7 and 8 Fig. 8 a section on line 8-8 of Fig. 7. is, in the main, like the bracket shown in the In the drawings 10 indicates wood bars conother figures and its parts are designated by the nected at their ends to form a supporting frame same reference numerals. In this form the for comparatively thin top plate or sheet 11 spacer portion 12 and immediately adjacent porwhich, under present market conditions is accepttions of the bracket are stiffened against relative ably formed of comparatively thin card-board or angular displacement by the longitudinal rib 50 35 fibre board, the upper face of which may or may which is struck up medially along the spacer por- 90 not be overlaid by desired padding and/or finish tion and extends into the corners between said sheet. portion and the car 13 and footing 14.

Such a table top structure has, of course, been Referring now to Fig. 1, it will be noted that, long well known. by attaching one bracket B to the inner face of My improvement resides primarily in the legeach of the bars 10 adjacent one end of said bar 95 supporting and bracing bracket 13 which is conbut spaced from the inner face of the immediveniently formed from a strip of sheet metal and ately adjacent bar by an amount slightly greater comprises the middle spacer portion 12, the anguthan the width of the lower end of a leg, said larly arranged ear 13 at one end, the aligned lower end of each leg may, when folded, lie in footings 14, 15, the laterally displaced leg bearthe space between the adjacent bracket B and 100 ing 16 between footings 14 and 15, medially perthe bar 10 to which said leg is pivoted. As a coniorated at 17, and the anchor teats 18. sequence each leg is firmly braced, by its brace Bearing 16 is connected by the inclined por- 30 in a plane paralle W t the p v axis 0f tions 19 and 20 with footings 14 and 15 respectivethe leg without relying upon any rigidity of the l and teats 18 are formed by portions angularly main top sheet and without interfering in any 1G5 displaced from the footings as clearly shown in way with freedom of movement of an adjacent Fig. 3. leg.

A single bolt 25 passed through one of bars 10 It will also be noted that the single pivot bolt and through perforation 1'7 and through transserves to anchor the leg on the top frame and verse perforation 26 near the upper end of a leg support one of its braces. 1L

t will be apparent that use of the second brace T may be optional.

I claim as my invention: I

1. The combination with a side rail of a tabletop frame, of a metal bracket comprising a perforated leg-bearing portion flanked on opposite sides of the perforation by two aligned footings, a spacer portion extending substantially at right angles to the footing portion, and an ear carried by the outer end of the spacer portion and substantially parallel with the footing portion, a

, leg, a bolt passing through the frame bar, legbearing and leg clamping said foot portion upon the inner face of a side rail and pivotally associating said leg with the table, and a brace connected with the. leg and pivotally associated with the ear at the outer end of the spacer portion.

2. The combination with a side rail of a tabletop frame, of a metal bracket comprising a perforated leg-bearing portion flanked on opposite sides of the perforation by two aligned footings, a spacer portion extending substantially at right angles to the footing portion, and an ear carried by the outer end of the spacer portion and substantially parallel with the footing portion, a leg, a bolt passing through the frame bar, leg-bearing and leg clamping said foot portion upon the inner face of a side rail and pivotally associating said leg with the table, and a brace connected with the leg and pivotally associated with the ear at the outer end of the spacer portion, said spacer portion being spaced laterally from the adjacent top rail a distance greater than the thickness of the lower end of an adjacent leg.

3. The combination with a side rail of a tabletop frame, of a metal bracket comprising an in termediate spacer portion, a pair of aligned footings, in a plane substantially at right angles to the spacer portion and at one end thereof and connected by a laterally-offset perforated legbearing portion, and an ear carried by the outer end of the spacer portion and substantially parallel with the footings, a leg, a bolt passing through the frame bar, leg-bearing and leg and pivotally associating said leg with the table, and a brace connected with the leg and pivotally associated with the ear at the outer end of the spacer portion.

4. The combination with a side rail of a tabletop frame, of a metal bracket comprising an in-- termediate spacer portion, a pair of aligned footings in a plane substantially at right angles to the spacer portion and at one end thereof and conn cted by a laterally-offset perforated legbearing portion, and an ear carried by the outer end of the spacer portion and substantially parallel with the footings, a leg, a bolt passing through the frame bar, leg-bearing and leg and pivotally associating said leg with the table, and a brace connected with the leg andpivotally associated with the ear at the'outer end of the spacer portion, said spacer portion being spaced laterally from the adjacent top rail a distance greater than the thickness of the lower end of an adjacent leg.

5. As an article of manufacture, a table-leg bracket comprising an intermediate spacer portion, an car at one end of said spacer portion, and a pair of footings connected by an intermediate perforated leg-bearing laterally offset from the footings toward the ear, said footings and leg-bearing lying substantially parallel with the ear.

WILLIAM BERSSENBRUGGE. 

